The surname Rosborough
A surname, carried by 1,142 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex R216
Origin
Variant of Roxburgh.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,142 people named Rosborough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 270,355 Americans. That is down 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,184.
#22,516
rank among US surnames
1,142
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-3.5%
change since 2000 (was #20,754)
Who is named Rosborough
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
61% of people named Rosborough identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 61%
- Black (not Hispanic) 32%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Rosborough
Rosborough has the Soundex code R216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R216.
Questions
- Where does the surname Rosborough come from?
- Variant of Roxburgh.
- How common is the surname Rosborough?
- 1,142 people in the United States had the surname Rosborough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,355 Americans. It ranked 22,516th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rosborough?
- In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Rosborough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Rosborough getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,184 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,142 in 2010, down 3.5%.